Colombia’s vice president formally asked the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office to inform him on advances made in the investigations into the killings of human rights workers.
Vice President Angelino Garzon did so after a coalition of human rights organization released a report saying that in 2011 49 human rights workers were murdered and 239 had been intimidated of threatened.
According to a press release, Garzon asked the prosecutor in charge to assure the cases were subject to “investigation, identification and swift justice” and a succesful identification of “the motives and the organizations involed in these acts.”
The vice president also called on human rights organizations to actively be involved in the investigations, claiming that “in the majority of cases their actions are limited to filing a complaint … without active participation” in the subsequent investigation.